Kyrgyz authorities have reopened a probe into the assassination of independent journalist Alisher Saipov, who was shot dead in the southern city of Osh almost 12 years ago.
A Kyrgyz lawyer who has helped thousands of stateless people gain citizenship has won this year's Nansen Refugee Award, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) announced on October 2.
Human Rights Watch has called for a thorough investigation of an attack on RFE/RL correspondent Aibek Kulchumanov, who was assaulted in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh and later accused of hurting a local man with his drone.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called on all countries to reject China's demand to repatriate ethnic Uyghurs to China, where they face repression.
The Kyrgyz-Tajik border has been a flashpoint for many years now and the situation is at the least, no better, and some would argue it is worse now than ever before.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov have discussed bilateral ties and regional integration in the post-Soviet era near the Russian city of Orenburg.
Patients were recovering in hospital after an armed clash on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border in which at least one Kyrgyz border guard was killed and 19 people injured, including a 12-year-old child. A ruined building bore the scars of the firing, and shrapnel included parts of rocket-propelled grenades.
A shoot-out on a disputed section of the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in the Ferghana Valley has left at least one border guard dead and 19 other people wounded, officials from both countries say.
Kyrgyzstan adopted a new national holiday this year, not to celebrate a political or religious event but to pay tribute to one of its favorite symbols, the stringed musical instrument known as a komuz.
A court in Bishkek has started the retrial of two Kyrgyz opposition politicians, Omurbek Tekebaev and Duishonkul Chotonov, who had been transferred to house arrest in late August after their convictions were struck down.
Three Kyrgyz nationals have received prison terms for their roles in a high-profile rape case that sparked mass protests and attacks against Central Asian labor migrants in Russia's Far Eastern region of Sakha-Yakutia in March.
A new school in a village in central Kyrgyzstan made up of shipping containers has caused a social media stir and has been linked to the resignation of the country's education minister.
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